Ian McCabe (Yeh lab) Identifying two clinically relevant populations of CAFs in PDAC: tumor promoting (proCAF) and tumor restrictive (restCAF) These CAF subtypes are distributed spatially and may play distinct functional roles Mark Hazelbaker (Bear lab) The Arp2/3 complex is required for the turnover of clathrin plaques ACK regulates the recruitment of the Arp2/3 complex … Read more
David Rocco (Bergmeier lab) Elucidating a novel pathway for platelet activation Understanding how this pathway contributes to platelet adhesion under arterial shear stress Andrew Kennedy (Thaxton lab) ER sheet dynamics are distended in T cells in solid cancers Balancing ER sheets and tubules may protect T cells from disturbed ER dynamics in solid tumors
Kimberly Lukasik (Gupton lab) TRIM9 modulates focal adhesion dynamics to regulate cell motility in melanoma Emily Bulik-Sullivan (Randell lab) Elucidating the mechanism of ENaC activity reduction by CC-90009 This mechanism, and CC-90009鈥檚 capacity to promote ribosomal readthrough of PTC-CFTR variants is of therapeutic interest for cystic fibrosis
Gabby Bais (Giudice lab) FXR1 may regulate the translation of many cardiomyocyte-specific proteins Expression of muscle-specific splice isoforms of FXR1 may impact the contractility of the adult heart Sherry Hsu (Cohen lab) Tubulin acetylation and polyglutamylation increase early in neuronal differentiation, exhibit distinct distributions, and are important for maintaining neuronal morphology Tubulin acetylation … Read more
Henry Uchenna (Maddox lab) Capping Protein depletion accelerates furrowing and cytokinesis, likely due to increased F-actin in the contractile ring It also disrupts spindle dynamics, potentially through effects on the dynein-dynactin complex Meghan Anderman (McCauley lab) Using human intestinal organoids to model gastrointestinal (GI) pathophysiology in cystic fibrosis Assessing the general role of … Read more
Leo Bondel (Zylka lab) Our goal is to identify guide RNAs targeting the UBE3A-ATS in human neurons, which allow for installation of a Poly(A) signal with cytosine base editors These edits have the potential to restore UBE3A expression, making this an attractive therapeutic strategy for Angelman Syndrome Katie Holmes聽(Baldwin聽lab) White matter astrocytes maintain … Read more
Cocoa T. Dixon, PhD Associate Department Head, Life Sciences Wake Technical Community College Talk focus Beyond the lecture hall: shaping a career in community college teaching Faculty host Natasha Snider, PhD More about the speaker聽 Dr. Dixon is a passionate and innovative educator deeply committed to promoting and enhancing student success in higher education. … Read more
Sergiu Pasca, MD Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Research focus Understanding human brain assembly and the molecular mechanisms that lead to neuropsychiatric disease using neural organoids Faculty host Gr茅gory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD More about the speaker聽 Trained as a physician in Romania, Dr. Sergiu Pasca, came for postdoctoral … Read more
Jack Bennett (Cook lab) Intracellular pH can be manipulated by inhibiting ion transporters, and these changes can be measured by flow cytometry pH manipulations may alter cell cycle progression, arresting cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle Lauren Griffith (Williams lab) Explore how integrin-尾1 and its adaptor protein Talin loss-of function … Read more
Michelle LaBella (Yeh lab) TNIK is required to restrain tumor invasion in PDAC Clear difference in mechanism when compared to colorectal/lung cancer TNIK is a newly identified regulator of PLAT, tPA expression and ECM modulation through fibrin degradation New mechanism for PDAC invasion and metastasis, may be what restrains classical tumors Mady Chlebowski … Read more
